[OOC] 𝕲𝖗𝖎𝖒 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖕𝖊𝖗'𝖘 𝕲𝖆𝖒𝖇𝖎𝖙

[Shoryu Magami]

@Aewin@Pudding@Melo@Ailyn Evensen@Snagglepuss89@tsukune

Just a quick update...

PC issues are getting a lot worse. I've pretty much been at the PC for roughly ten hours straight now doing nothing but recovering data that was lost the moment I woke up, and several basic functions aren't even working so I need to keep going through backdoors and such. I have no idea exactly when I'll be able to update you all next, since I'm pretty much pushing through all this bullshit.

[Snagglepuss89]

No worries, there's still another day or two of collab work on our end for the post, so I'm in no rush personally. Take your time to sort this shit out.

[Shoryu Magami]

Yeah, I'll keep that in mind. I just thought it was fair you guys all got that update, since this bullshit really does happen to me very regularly. It'll likely continue to happen regularly for some time, but you guys've taken interest in a project that I really went out of my way to make sure would be enjoyable, and I don't want to let people down.

Just know that even if I seem quiet at times, I haven't given up on this thing. I might seem like I'm logged on here a lot and subsequently look like I've got a lot of spare time, but I really can't emphasize how bad my workload really is. The amount of shit I need to sort/recover/et cetera pretty much forbids me the spare time to even take a walk unless it's to buy supplies. Gaming is pretty much a thing of the past for me. For all intents and purposes, I work sixteen hours or more a day including weekends (I've been doing that for a decade or more straight now), and that's when my PC isn't giving me this bullshit (hence why my sleep pattern's abysmal -- if my PC decides to pull a stunt like this on me - which happens often - then that's pretty much me not getting to sleep for a day).

Anyway, I shouldn't be wasting time (not that I think making people informed about my situation is completely wasting time), but good to know you guys're working out the collaboration on your end.

[tsukune]

No worries about the delay, Sho. My new school term has started, so I'd be busy too.

Meanwhile, I'll just run this new game I managed to get it work on my Steam. Finally found a way to break through the region lock, because I've been dying to get this for a long time since its release. Good thing that this game can run on auto mode while I multitask (aka doing school work), yay.

[Shoryu Magami]

I've sort of started working on my post (only about ten minutes ago), just because I felt like my mood was gonna get too sour if I didn't do something to remind myself why I actually bother even being here. Fifteen hours of non-stop work (I've yet to have a break, and in that whole period of time I've only just now gotten myself food more or less) without any real pay-off can do things to a person.

Really, I feel like this role-play is the primary reason I even bother staying on the site at this point given how a lot of stuff's turned out -- I pretty much put my contact details up in my user bio so anyone actually interested in being my friend has a way to contact me in the event that I leave, though some of you're already on those contacts.

There's really no rush for us to move our posts forward though, considering the others need to finish their collaboration. Speaking of which, I would've been open to the idea of doing such a collaboration with you -- I just have no experience with collaborations at all apart from when me and Ailyn write one of her characters doing something in GA, so I don't really know much about it in terms of role-play and I find myself concerned that my detailed internal style of posting would somehow be compromised by such collaborations.

Anyway, best of luck with the school term. I'll probably poke you on Skype if the post ends up happening.

Edit: In other news, I fixed Leonard's images -- Ailyn found higher resolution pictures for me to work with.

[Snagglepuss89]

An excerpt from our PMs, to prove productive work is being done:

"And before you plunge the dagger into your chosen victim, remember to raise your pinky in salute to the departed, it's the proper British way to murder."

[Shoryu Magami]

I'll go out on a limb here and assume it's OOC banter, but which is you was responsible for that?

Anyway, I still need to do some of the data recovery that I couldn't finish before pretty much collapsing, but I'll work on a post in the meantime as I'm waking up.

[Shoryu Magami]

@Aewin@Pudding@Melo@Ailyn Evensen@Snagglepuss89@tsukune

Status update:

• Since collaborations've recently been brought up a few times, I've decided to include a new rule concerning them (only missed this detail when I posted the interest check/OOC due to being fairly unfamiliar with collaborations). It mostly involves how you need to go about giving credit to those you did the collaboration with -- specifically, I want people to give credit to them by using the [ @Mention ] feature when stating their name(s). This is the one instance where using that feature in the IC will generally be accepted/expected.

• An update will be coming to 'The Glossary' soon, based off discussion with a few people (Ailyn, tsukune, Snaggle). It'll most likely include some actions from you guys as well, so I guess keep that in mind. I just don't have time to post it up yet -- I haven't even had time to start my next IC post.

[Shadow007]

Itzal Albescu Fuji

Name: Itzal Albescu Fuji
Also Known As: [Phantom]-- Due to the ability he has to sneak up on people without them noticing.
Birthdate: December 24, 1992
Place of Origin: Takeda, Kyoto, Japan
Ethnicity: Eurasian (Japanese/French)
Gender: Male
Height: 157.48 cm / 5' 2''
Weight: 52.1631 kg./ 115 lbs.
Laterality: Right-handed
Occupation: Chef
Marital Status: Single

Appearance: Despite his odd appearance, Itzal actually looks striking similar to his deceased father (who was also albino), if you can get pass the white hair and red eyes, you'll notice that Itzal is on the short side for his gender and has a slender build. His hair is usually a bit unkempt and has almost a fluffy texture to it and is considered to be quite attractive to many girls, though he usually denies their advances politely. He usually wears plain black t-shirts and ratted old blue jeans with black tennis shoes that are apparently used for his "bad back." If the weather is colder out or if he just feels cold (which happens a lot), he'll wear a baggy black sweatshirt that is obviously not his size. He usually has a handheld gaming console on his person at all times, usually in his sweatshirt pocket and tends to listen to music quite often on his MP3 player, so it's more often than not that you'll see him with earbuds in his ears, though oddly enough it doesn't seem to affect his hearing as he can hear a distance a ways with them in.

Synopsis: Having developed a love for cuisine at a young age, Itzal became inspired to become a chef to bring the sort of enjoyment that he has with food with everyone else. He managed to follow his dream and worked around the world with his job and has picked up some languages from doing so. He is actually quiet soft spoken and uses food to start a conversation between others, he also is very gentle and tends to be very calm in most situations as it takes a lot to get him to lose his temper. However, he can tend to get overly sentimental to the point of tears easily and has too soft of a heart for others, however he has a strong sense of morality and is a stickler for the rules. He is not very strong physically and uses his wits to get around dangerous situations and has an odd sense of intuition that may or may not get him into worse situations.

Notes:

• His Astrological sign is Capricorn.
• He really loves dogs and is often talking about his own, a Cocker Spaniel named Max and a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named Ruby.
• He really enjoys video games to the point he rather play them than talk with others.
• He has an extreme phobia of bugs and especially spiders, to the point that if he sees one he freezes in fright.
• His blood type is B+.
• He actually sleeps quite a lot during the day due to his insomnia, making him more of a night owl.
• He considers himself a sweet connoisseur.
• He looks A LOT younger than he actually is, which bothers him.

Theme Music: To be announced.

[Shoryu Magami]

@Shadow007

'Public CS' and 'Private CS' have been accepted. Go ahead and post the 'Public CS' over to the character tab, using the same hider you used here.

[Shadow007]

@Shoryu Magami

Got it!

[Snagglepuss89]

@Shadow007Welcome to the club, now you can fight with @Aewin about which of your characters gets chopped up and baked into pies for their ironic death.

[Shadow007]

@Snagglepuss89

It'll be interesting that's for sure!

[Shoryu Magami]

@Aewin@Pudding@Melo@Ailyn Evensen@Snagglepuss89@tsukune@Shadow007

Status update:

• 'The Glossary' has been completely reworked now. While it's entirely possible that I'll be moving/altering/adding/deleting categories at some point, I expect this to be the general format that that section of the OOC will stick with.
  
  With regards to the 'Player Character Glossaries' area, that's where terms specifically related to them will go, but I'm actually considering whether or not it should even be there (and I'm open to discussion about it), because down the line I'm not only planning on having you guys include information about relevant NPCs connected to your character's lives who get brought up in the role-play, but I'm also planning to have an additional category called 'Secrets' added to each CS that will contain revealed information about the character that's kept in a hider called 'Spoilers'. The NPCs could go in that section, but it's hard to say. I plan to create the staple method all this is done as I work it into Leonard's CS in the near future. Input regarding all of this would be greatly appreciated.

• Discussion with a few people came up occasionally regarding the possibility of a 'Relationship Chart' being added. While I have things like this for my main story project (due to the sheer size of it), I hadn't considered it for this until it got mentioned. I'm not entirely sure whether this was referring to a complete chart explaining the connections between all the player characters and NPCs, or if it was meant to be a chart each of you had where you listed your relationships with each other and NPCs as they build. I figured I'd bring it up, both for clarity to be given and also for anyone to discuss their thoughts about if these sorts of things would be useful or not. I'm open to any thoughts you all have.

• Since a few people who said they wanted into this role-play bailed, and a few others have been a bit slowpoke-ish in terms of making progress with their characters (some of them with justified reasons, mind you), I've decided to finally settle on a decision I was largely up in the air on and subsequently never mentioned in the OOC when it was created. From this point onward, I'm allowing people to have a second player character if they want. This is entirely non-obligatory, but it's obviously a step being taken to allow us to move the role-play forward, since right now we're waiting on those who've expressed interest to register or for new people to show interest (either by finding this thing or by someone inviting them to join us). A couple people expressed interest in potentially doing this already.
  
  I'd like to at the very least fill in all the blank spots currently kept as placeholders in 'The Cast', but the roster can hold more than that if we get a lot more people wanting in. Naturally, the roster has to cap at the amount of cards in the Major Arcana, or possibly a bit less than that, and those who join later will likely get less fitting cards than those who join early (this always was 'first come; first serve' after all).

[Snagglepuss89]

@Shoryu Magami

You mentioned not knowing how your style would work in collabs, well as someone who also does mostly introspective writing my suggestion is: Use a different style for Collabs. Conrad collabs will probably be more about actions that can be interpreted than explanations for his actions.

[Shoryu Magami]

@Snagglepuss89

Yeah, the closest thing I ever do to collabs would be when Ailyn influences the actions of some of the female characters in my main project which she's more or less 'adopted' from me -- one of which is basically her avatar (subsequently altered by her for that reason).

Since I tend to write highly introspectively, but do so while switching - on the fly - between the characters in terms of whose mind the story is giving you perspective on, I'm comfortable with the idea of handling multiple characters and shifting perspective. The real concern I have with the idea of collabs is the way they might flow together.

I understand the primary reason people do collabs is to allow things like conversation to flow together more efficiently, but I've always been concerned that the noticeable difference in writing style between the two people doing the collabs would essentially cause the flow to look abnormal because you'd essentially have two distinctly different writing styles in a single post. This isn't a problem with my main project, since I'm the actual author and I'm mostly taking in Ailyn's ideas or dialogue and writing them into the same style as the rest of the narrative.

Will take your suggestion into account though, so long as it doesn't end up making me feel like I don't like how the character's being portrayed. The next post between me and tsukune might be a collab, but I'm also trying to gauge when @Pudding is expecting their intro post to be up because they planned on meeting up with us.

[Shoryu Magami]

@Aewin@Snagglepuss89

Great work, you two. Also a lot of interesting foreshadowing - intended and unintended, I imagine - to things that might come.

I should have my 'GM post' up for you two in a bit.

[Ailyn Evensen]

@Snagglepuss89 and @aewin, I've never seen a collab post before but that was really well done! Everything flowed nicely and it was really entertaining. :)

[Shoryu Magami]

@Snagglepuss89 and @aewin, I've never seen a collab post before but that was really well done! Everything flowed nicely and it was really entertaining. :)

Ailyn Evensen

Yeah, pretty much. Hopefully my 'GM post' was enjoyable and introduced something good for them to work with next.

A few other people who haven't posted here are working on character sheets in the background, but what I said in the last update still applies and we're still recruiting. It'll be a while, but we should be able to make things work -- just takes a lot more effort and quality to make a non-fandom role-play garner interest than it does with something based off existing material.

~

@Aewin@Pudding@Melo@Ailyn Evensen@Snagglepuss89@tsukune@Shadow007

Status update (while I'm still looking for input from you guys concerning the last one too):

• Paulette Holly Ashworth's CS has been added to the 'NPCs' section of the character tab, and she was added to 'The Cast'.

• The Methuselah of Paris now has an entry in 'The Glossary'.

[Pudding]

@Shoryu Magami
Am I fine to post?